#title "Home Page"
In Frontier 4.2.3 we added a lot of new power to the connection between BBEdit and Frontier. Frontier 5.0, released 1/30/98, increases this power with many improvements in Frontier and its website framework.

It's possible to get a lot of the site management capabilities of Frontier, while editing your pages with BBEdit and storing the files in the file system, using the Finder to move stuff around.

<h4>Who this is for</h4>

BBEdit web developers who want more power and haven't been using the Frontier website framework.

<h4>How it works</h4>

As always, you store your pages in a folder of BBEdit text files. The folder structure mirrors the organization of your website. There's no need to import the site into the Frontier object database. You don't have to learn how to build object-oriented websites using the Frontier website framework.

We don't change where you store your files, but we *do* change how you think about writing for the web. Instead of editing individual pages, you're managing a website. There's a little bit of setup overhead for this new view, and a new vocabulary to learn, but the gain in power and leverage is substantial.

<h4>Templates</h4>

A file, at the top level of the folder, called #template.html, contains the template for the site. The other files and sub-folders contain the text and graphics for the site. When you build a page, the text of the page flows thru the template. When you want to change the look of a site, edit the template and rebuild the pages. This is good news for new sites, and some extra work for old pre-templated sites. 

<h4>Much more</h4>

The glossary helps you manage links. Macros make complex page elements simple. Easy AppleScript macro links makes database-oriented websites possible. Image management features make your pages look better, and save you time and typing. It's all done thru menu commands and Finder files and folders.

<h4>How this site is organized</h4>

Links to all the pages are in the sidebar at the left edge of every page.